The temperature on March 1, 1959 was between 0.7 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
April 8 » A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
June 30 » A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
July 15 » The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
July 24 » At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".
August 11 » Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
September 18 » Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
Day of death September 24, 1959
The temperature on September 24, 1959 was between 9.6 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (34%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
June 8 » USSBarbero and the United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
June 26 » Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium.
July 29 » First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
September 14 » The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
October 30 » Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board.
November 19 » The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
Day of burial September 28, 1959
The temperature on September 28, 1959 was between 3.6 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 2 » Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
January 29 » The first Melodifestivalen is held in Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden.
February 3 » Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
February 6 » Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
March 30 » Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
June 23 » Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
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